WFMT's The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer 6-27-2026

Theme:  Hello and goodbye. Plus songs for Chicago's Pride Parade
Next Week: Fourth of July & Stephen Foster's 200th birth anniversary
*** New or notable

Hour 1

1.          Lead Belly: The Midnight Special THEME (excerpt 1) | Midnight Special | RCA Victor LPV-505
2.          Catie Curtis w/Mary Gauthier: Hello, Stranger (Carter) | Hello, Stranger | Compass Records 745172
3.          Aaron Nathans & Michael G. Ronstadt: Hello, World | Hello, World | Crooked Cyclone 1 95269 21928 4
4.          Sons of the Never Wrong: Door of Love | 3 Good Reasons | Waterbug WBG0018
5.          Bread & Bones: Will I Be Welcome? | Could Have Been a Dream | Riptone Records RR003
6.          The Mammals: You Can Come to My House | Nonet | Humble Abode Music HAM 18
7.          Laura Love: Come As You Are (Kurt Cobain) | Octoroon | Mercury 314-634-649-2
8.          Janis Ian: Welcome to Acousticville | Hunger | Windham Hill Welcome to Acousticville / 01934 11274-2
9.          David Roth and Chuck Pyle: Everybody (Roth/Pyle) | If You Can't Fly | Wind River Records          DRO4003D
10.        *** Bela Fleck and Renee Fleming ft. Vince Gill: The Scarlet Tide, (Costello/Burnett) | The Fiddle and the Drum | Thirty Tigers 26081LP
11.        *** Peter Mulvey & Jenna Nichols w/Ross Bellenoit: When You Were Mine (Mulvey) | Floyd Mercantile |            Righteous Babe Records RBR 130-D
12.        Buddy Mondlock: The Leaving | Poetic Justice | Major Bob MBPCD 0002
13.        A Different Thread: Always Leaving | Over Again | A Different Thread ADT-004
14.        The Gibson Brothers: Bye, Bye, Love | Brotherhood | Rounder Records 11661-35986-02
15.        Paul Simon: 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover | Still Crazy After All These Years | Warner Bros. R2 78901
16.        Colby Maddox: The Midnight Special - fiddle | Midnight Special Collection | CMaddox/MS 009
Hour 2

17.        Tom Paxton: The Last Thing on My Mind | Ramblin' Boy & Ain't That News! | Elektra 8122 73565-2
18.        Tom & Chris Kastle: Leaving of Liverpool | Strike the Bell | Sextant SXA5991 CD
19.        Wacker Drive (Skip Harstirn, Vivian Davis, John Salewski): Weird (Diana Straight-as-an-arrow) | Gay   & Straight Together | Smithsonian Folkways FS8580
20.        Kevin So: Parade | Countryside | Wingbone WB-3113
21.        Dev Singh: Carry It On (G. Turner) | Gay & Straight Together | Smithsonian Folkways FS8580
22.        Kristin Lems: How Nice | Gay & Straight Together | Smithsonian Folkways FS8580
23.        Grant Peeples: Aunt Lou | Punishing the Myth | GatorBone Records GatorBone 105
24.        Natalia Zukerman ft. Trina Hamlin: Loved Like That | Gypsies & Clowns - Live at SPACE Disc 1 | Weasel Records WSL-1202 1
25.        *** Jenny Reynolds: In Our Way | Willow & Stone | jennyreynolds 1 95269 41253 1
26.        *** Andrew Sa ft. H.C. McIntire: Lavender Cowboy | American Rough | Bloodshot Records
6.26.2026
27.        Sam Gleaves: My Queer Cowboy | Honest | samgleaves.com
8.23.2024
28.        Crys Matthews: Prodigal Son | Changemakers | crysmatthews.com [2021]
29.        *** Rachael Sage: Nexus (acoustic) | Under My Canopy | MPress Records | bandcamp.com |
6.26.2026 [album out this fall]
30.        *** Catie Curtis: C'mon Butterfly | C'mon Butterfly | catiecurtis.com |
6.21.2026
31.        Andrew Beyer: The Midnight Special - Melodica | Midnight Special Collection | AABeyer/MS 005
Hour 3

32.        *** Pharis & Jason Romero: Big Time World | These Are the Days That Turn Into Years | Lula Records LULA 2607
33.        Sky Smeed: North Shore Trail | Leaving Again | Sky Smeed
2.9.2019
34.        Mitchell & Webb: The Last Action Hero / Goodbye | That Mitchell & Webb Sound: Series 5 | BBC 781785 290299
35.        Jonas Friddle Band ft. Anna Jacobson, Andrew Wilkins: You May Leave But This Will Bring You Back (Memphis Jug Band) | Folkstage - Jonas Friddle | WFMT
3.11.2023
35.        *** Annie Gallup: Elephant | Nightclothes | Gallway Bay Music GBM26
37.        Brandon Reisdorf: Elephant in the Room (for Matt Bishop) | single | Brandon Reisdorf
38.        Mel Brooks & Carl Reiner: Diseases and The Plague | The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000 | Rhino R2 72944
39.        *** Dervish, ft. Eddi Reader: One Irish Rover (V. Morrison) | The Great Irish Song Book, Vol. 2 | Down The Road DTR 0017
40.        Rachel Bissex ft. Dar Williams: Royal Blues | I Used to Be Nice | Alcazar ALC 132
41.        Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer ft. Cherish the Ladies: Howdy Little Newlycome/Ceilidh House Polka, (Guthrie/Fink) | Dancin' in the Kitchen | Community Music CMCD207
42.        Tish Hinojosa: Lose Yourself to the Moon | Here is West | Tish Records none
43.        Carrie Newcomer: The Gathering of Spirits | The Gathering of Spirits | Philo 11671-1243-2
44.        Pat Wictor: Love is the Water | Waiting for the Water | Risky Disc Records RDR 004
45.        Laura Love: I Still Believe (Unplugged) | She Loved Red | Laura Love 88295 68276
46.        Andrew Beyer: The Midnight Special - cigar box slide | Midnight Special Collection | AABeyer/MS  004




Marilyn Rea Beyer
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